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511.
by woooooo 3y ago
Bruh, you just admitted to cherry-picking the date
512.
by woooooo 3y ago
My phrasing was "had done it to Russia successfully". That doesn't imply success for ordinary Russians.
513.
by woooooo 3y ago
They boiled the frog with the bourgeoisie. For a long time, there were workarounds if you're generally smart and educated. Nowadays its a hacker level operation to get on a VPN.
514.
by woooooo 3y ago
Back in the 90s, we really were that arrogant. Policy makers believed history was over and we had won. We had just done it to Russia successfully (short-term). Why not China?
515.
by woooooo 3y ago
90% of the noise about Musk and Twitter has zero compassion for software engineers. We're "techbros". If Musk were doing all of the same things, and much worse, without the culture war stuff attached we would never hear his
516.
by woooooo 3y ago
Thanks. Somehow I never heard about that once, everyone's more concerned about the blue checks or whatever.
517.
by woooooo 3y ago
This is a great take. Also, is it really so bad? It's fun. All the adults are clucking their tongues at him but presumably they'd be fine with him being a quiet entry in the Panama Papers and the Epstein flight logs with the oth
518.
by woooooo 3y ago
The scene was funny but I've never heard anyone who knew him describe him as that sort of pompous douchebag. It's a little defamatory.
519.
by woooooo 3y ago
Does anyone bother to write that the gauls were losers? Vercingetorix got owned! The Spartans get way too much hype but they also had a fairly respectable run for a while. They beat Persia and then Athens. Were the athenians even bigger
520.
by woooooo 3y ago
Style changes over time, but factoring is evergreen. Something could be written using Java 1.4 idioms with good organization and factoring, or using the latest functional hoohas with everything all mashed together. Or the inverse, of cours
521.
by woooooo 3y ago
Everything is high school. A rebel thumbing their nose at the system must be punished, while the conventionally corrupt deserve the benefit of the doubt.
522.
by woooooo 3y ago
Solidarity is important. Charity isn't. We're all working, it's not charity to be treated right. Look at that dumbass alphabet worker's union for example. They offered nothing to workers for joining, all their goals
523.
by woooooo 3y ago
That's the wrong way to think about unions. Unions are an idea to counter the power imbalance against the company. It turns it from many->1 to many->many. Now all of a sudden lots of things are negotiable, like different contra
524.
by woooooo 3y ago
Collections obviously need to be generic though. Slices and maps were generic from day 1 in go so it's not like this is controversial.
525.
by woooooo 3y ago
The headline wording here is a conscious choice, it's extremely leading.
526.
by woooooo 3y ago
I think it was LBJ who said "I'll call the guy a pig fucker just to make him deny it".
527.
by woooooo 3y ago
It tends to get thoughtlessly assumed, rather than argued or asserted.
528.
by woooooo 3y ago
Unplanned work being arbitrarily scoped into sprint is pain. Doesn't matter the source. In practice, your approach often turns into "junior engineer abuse" where they have to clean up a bunch of unrelated pre-existing stuff
529.
by woooooo 3y ago
In the context they were in, the answer to all of those questions is "shut the fuck up, we can talk about it later". In the normal course of business, it's a different conversation. Even then, if you're making some poor
530.
by woooooo 3y ago
In the linked article, the situation was that they absolutely needed to change some hard-coded MONTHS value from 3 to 4 in order to keep the factory running. That change should be shipped in isolation. With manual testing to cope for the l
531.
by woooooo 3y ago
Not when you have an exec-inspired one liner patch that has to get rushed through at great impact to the business. You can't just stack up a bunch of aphorisms and delegate your thought to them, some situations have context.
532.
by woooooo 3y ago
Long term vs short term. It's a bad idea to rush through refactors.
533.
by woooooo 3y ago
None of the requested changes involved more testing or risk-reduction. They actually increased risk by insisting on refactoring a bunch of nearby things as the "cost" of the change.
534.
by woooooo 3y ago
My bad, ty, discount by 50% :)
535.
by woooooo 3y ago
It's the Economist. They are honest and direct about their biases and the "pro five eyes" angle can be assumed.
536.
by woooooo 3y ago
When you're making the decision entirely based on concerns with their speech, that starts sounding like a technicality to me.
537.
by woooooo 3y ago
> Should the government have no power to regulate media entities? Yes, you got it. Perfect. We have 200 years of first amendment jurisprudence, there are limited cases where it's acceptable.
538.
by woooooo 3y ago
"Liberal". Making decisions based on culture-war proximity and celebrity is hardly the progressive ideal.
539.
by woooooo 3y ago
I recently googled some random topic (drag race engines I think) and got some fairly-decent article from 5 years ago that satisfied my curiosity. The website was actively user-hostile. Multiple things popping up all over the place, the wor
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by woooooo 3y ago
Speed of light between two points is probably not going away :)

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